. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . ey are found in immense quantities, and have bright, ultramarine blue flowers. What apity Mr. Paul Kane cannot tell us what they are. Mr. Editok : I was much pleased with the picture of an aviary you lately i) birds in confinement only would not die, and thus satisfy us they were happy and con-tented, I should be very apt tokeep them by hundreds ; butsad experience in losing raypets, has told mo to keep onlythe saucy and hardy in con-finement. Parrots are now myhobby, and, after two yearstrial, I have not lost one ou
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . ey are found in immense quantities, and have bright, ultramarine blue flowers. What apity Mr. Paul Kane cannot tell us what they are. Mr. Editok : I was much pleased with the picture of an aviary you lately i) birds in confinement only would not die, and thus satisfy us they were happy and con-tented, I should be very apt tokeep them by hundreds ; butsad experience in losing raypets, has told mo to keep onlythe saucy and hardy in con-finement. Parrots are now myhobby, and, after two yearstrial, I have not lost one out oftwenty. The accompanyingparrot-house might very wellbe combined with a vinery,where, under the shadow ofpurple grapes, a number of va-riegated (tulip) parrots mightfind sufficient room to be saucyand happy. The design is inthe Moorish style. Sashes ortrellis-work, made to fit accurately, would render it secure in winter. A collection of par-rots and paroquets, would have a splendid effect in such a building, and give it a trulyOriental appearance. Answers to Correspondents.—(A. D.) According to Dr. Gray, the Washington Elm atCambridge, Mass.—a tree of no extraordinary size—was some years ago estimated to pro-duce a crop of seven millions of leaves, exposing a surface of about five acres of , for neatness sake, or to obtain leaf-mould, you gather this annual harvest of leaves,you will, in time, take away great quantities of mineral as well as organized matter, bywhich the soil will be impoverished, unless it is restored by manures. Moles may be killed easily and safely, thus : Take a quantity of fresh earth worms ; putthem in a wooden box with a small quantity of carbonate of barytes, in powder ; lay inthe runs five or six worms, and continue doing so as long as the worms are can-ied away bythe moles. The Horticulturist, in 1847, did state that Stephanotis floribunda (a native of Madagascar)will answer well as a summer climber in the open border, if
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